nischown

- change the owner of a NIS+ object

Synopsis

nischown [-AfLP] ownername...

Description

nischown changes the owner of the NIS+ objects or entries specified by
name to owner. Entries are specified using indexed names (see nismatch(1)). If
owner is not a fully qualified NIS+ principal name (see nisaddcred(1M)),
the default domain (see nisdefaults(1)) will be appended to it.

The only restriction on changing an object's owner is that you must
have modify permissions for the object. Note: If you are the current
owner of an object and you change ownership, you may not
be able to regain ownership unless you have modify access to
the new object.

The command will fail if the master NIS+ server is not running.

The NIS+ server will check the validity of the name before
making the modification.

Options

The following options are supported:

-A

Modify all entries in all tables in the concatenation path that match the search criteria specified in name. It implies the -P option.

-f

Force the operation and fail silently if it does not succeed.

-L

Follow links and change the owner of the linked object or entries rather than the owner of the link itself.

-P

Follow the concatenation path within a named table. This option is only meaningful when either name is an indexed name or the -L option is also specified and the named object is a link pointing to entries.

Examples

Example 1 Using the nischown Command

The following two examples show how to change the owner of an
object to a principal in a different domain, and to change it
to a principal in the local domain, respectively.